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| bio | website | chil.rice.edu/jzemla |
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| location | Houston, TX | |
| age | 28 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 4 months |
| seen | May 20 at 4:38 | |
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May 23 |
answered | Is it possible to distinguish recall and calculation? |
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May 18 |
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How do you refer to something in APA-style that is not submitted to be published? This question might do well on academia.stackexchange.com, no? |
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May 8 |
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Is there any evidence to support a correlation between how much bodily energy you are using, and how quickly time appears to pass? edited tags |
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Apr 21 |
answered | Can experience alter one's preferences for beauty? |
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Apr 19 |
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Can experience alter one's preferences for beauty? sorry, i did not see the tag... the title is a bit misleading though, i think. Perhaps something like 'By what mechanism does experience alter perceptions of beauty?' or something |
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Apr 19 |
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Can experience alter one's preferences for beauty?I told her that her experiences with a previous boyfriend [...] had radically changed her views... Doesn't that answer your question right there? You're accusing your friend of the very thing you're unsure about. |
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Apr 17 |
answered | Introductory resources on bayesian modeling for cognitive sciences |
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Apr 7 |
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What is the term for “What has been seen cannot be unseen” in cognitive sciences? i'm not sure this answer really fits the question. OP didn't say anything about deliberately trying to forget. i think this is just a simple case of priming. |
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Apr 3 |
awarded | Talkative |
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Mar 15 |
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What are some of the drawbacks to probabilistic models of cognition? Griffiths et al in the same issue is a good counterpart to this article: psychology.adelaide.edu.au/personalpages/staff/amyperfors/… |
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Mar 7 |
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Is it a good idea to play an instrument while studying? If so, what are the benefits? In support of the "we can't really multitask" claim, readers may wish to google the "PRP effect" or read a book like amazon.com/Multitasking-Mind-Cognitive-Models-Architectures/dp/… . In fact, it's hard for me to think of any situation in which doing two tasks at once aids performance on a single task better than doing that task alone. But it's an interesting topic... |
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Mar 7 |
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Is it a good idea to play an instrument while studying? If so, what are the benefits? i've "heard" it, but am not aware of any literature that actually supports that claim. i think it's just an urban legend, but would love to be proved wrong. perhaps you could add some references to your question? |
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Mar 4 |
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Can response time be incorporated into signal detection theory? added citation |
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Mar 4 |
suggested | suggested edit on Can response time be incorporated into signal detection theory? |
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Mar 2 |
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Does super-intelligence necessary lead to consciousness, self awareness, freewill or emotion Excellent answer-- it's great to see people putting in the time to answer questions at a level of detail that really answers the question thoroughly and provides references for further research |
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Mar 2 |
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What concepts of perception should designers be aware of when designing? @Ryan if you know of specific journal articles that might relate to this topic, check out this thread to potentially access them for free: meta.cogsci.stackexchange.com/a/205/55 |
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Mar 1 |
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Why is it common for people to default to a single causal source to explain new phenomena? @Comptrol no i think there's a valid question in here, but I think the phenomenon is much more general than you give it credit for. Research on causal reasoning tends to show that once people attribute a cause to an event, they tend to discount other possible causes. So the question then becomes, why do conspiracy nuts think X is the most likely cause? |
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Mar 1 |
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Why aren't sleep measures consistently measured as mediators/moderators of cognitive performance? Yes, I agree with almost everything you say; I think I just did a poor job of wording my argument. I'll try to edit my post to be more clear, but you bring up some good points as well-- maybe you should delete your comments and turn them into an answer? |
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Feb 29 |
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Why aren't sleep measures consistently measured as mediators/moderators of cognitive performance? @Preece no. as an example, let's suppose i put a test online to collect data from any participant who is willing. those who take the test voluntarily likely share certain characteristics-- perhaps they are more inquisitive than the population as a whole. in this case my sample is biased, because inquisitiveness is not normally distributed in my sample with respect to the population. |
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Feb 29 |
suggested | suggested edit on Why aren't sleep measures consistently measured as mediators/moderators of cognitive performance? |
